Art

[Liquid]

I'd like to see who else shares my passion.

Who do you think are the most influential artists of the modern era?

(Would we be allowed to post pics/links?)

[Toby]

Link away

I love HR Giger, check him out.

He designed the Alien from the popular film and his biomechanical landscapes are something to behold!

[Anonymous]

Tough one as modern art can be argued that of the last 100 years. 

I think people like Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol especially Warhol have changed the perception of what art is today.

I like a guy called Paul Kessling. Julian Beever and Kurt Weener are very clever.

[Anonymous]

i love art, im going to be studying it in March, but im REALLY into tattoo artists... so many of them have galleries ect... and i have a stupid amount of coca cola ads, marilyn canvases, posters, mirrors ect, so im old school, but i love a guy called Tim Shumate, he did tattooed disney princess pin ups... :)) 

[Anonymous]

I do love a tattoo. 

[Toby]

Paul Booth has some crazy tattoo designs!

I'm also a huge fan of the artist Francis Bacon

[Anonymous]

In terms of being influential on newer artists - Picasso and Dali have to figure highly - with Warhol and Lowrey coming close.   Henry Moore also had a huge impact (one of my favourites).

There are also some "unsung heroes" - "commercial artists" like Chris Foss and a number of comic book artists who practically created genres and are still influencing not only graphical artists but TV and cinema.   Foss in particular - hugely influential on viewers and well as other artists - plus he made it acceptable to use hyper-realism when everyone else was trying so hard to blur reality and form.

It's interesting though that Van Gogh and Lautrec are still such massively influential painters - perhaps it's because they both fall between abstraction and realism and their styles can be emulated fairly easily - though rarely succesfully.

As a purely personal thing, if I was able to buy a work by any recent artist - something to hang in my onw home and look at every day - it would have to be a Hockney.  His painting always feel "positive" to me and I like that effect.

If I could buy any work - not just modern - it would either be something distinctly renaissance - failing that, anything by Hogarth or Turner - both of whom push my emotional buttons.

[Anonymous]

i love how somebody took the time to answer this, and i agree with everything! mega kudos!x

[Liquid]

That is a great post:) you my friend know your stuff:)

We don't have to stick to mainstream by any means. I myself have pictures of banksy and Warhol art around my house.

Banksy is possibly my favourite "artist" despite many seeing his work as graffiti.

[Anonymous]

you guys have some great taste!!